Job 37:5

As he goes on, Elihu passes from teaching into description. He sets out the wisdom and greatness of God as seen in His great creation. The storm descriptions grow so vivid that we can only think of the storm as actually coming on. The lightning flashes, and the terrific peals of thunder fill him with dread, while the trembling herds show their fear.

That blaze of lightning is only the garment He covers Himself with. The rolling thunder is only the voice of Him who sits as King over the flood. From His hand comes food for the needy and judgment for the proud. The light from His presence strikes to the very depths of the sea. Both His hands of power wield the bolt like a dart sure of its aim... His thunder is the mighty voice announcing His presence, and the trembling cattle declare that He is near!

Here before Job's eyes was an object lesson about the spiritual storm he had been through. He certainly could not stop the storm, yet God would allow it only for a time. He knows how to make the storm a calm (Ps. 107:29), as the Lord Jesus did when His disciples were torn with fear (Mk. 4:38-39).

The storm is upon them now, and Elihu trembles. He calls on Job to hear God's voice in it all. And surely he calls him to hear that voice in the storm of sorrow that has fallen on him too. It has come blow upon blow, the sharp lightning stroke of affliction, the awful thunder of God's chastening. God has been doing marvellously, things beyond our comprehension, but it is God. "Be still, and know that I am God."

He is infinitely above our thoughts. "For he makes small the drops of water." Elihu illustrates it by God's power over outward things. And if that is true of something as small as the rain, how much more of something as great as the soul of man? That soul comes from the inbreathing of God Himself.

We are in these early seasons. Back then God was pleased to illustrate things by the speech that day after day pours out. He did not use the gospel preached to every creature, or the Son who had come down from heaven to show us the Father in Himself. For that very reason, because Christ was not here, God takes up the outward world. It shows His majesty, faithfulness, and gracious power in everything that surrounded man.

He is God, and Almighty, as the closing verses of Job 37 declared. He is also Jehovah, and He spoke out of the whirlwind, which Elihu had also mentioned.